Book
Introduction to the Analytical Art
- Published
- 1591
- Genre
- Science/Math
A foundational mathematical treatise in which François Viète develops a systematic form of symbolic algebra, using letters to represent both unknown and known quantities. Published in 1591, the work helped move European mathematics toward the general symbolic methods characteristic of modern algebra.
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